Under North Carolina law: “If any person, of malice aforethought, shall unlawfully castrate any other person, or cut off, maim or disfigure any of the privy members of any person, with intent to murder, maim, disfigure, disable or render impotent such person, the person so offending shall be punished as a Class C felon.”

She was originally held on a US$100,000 bond but the judge increased it to $500,000 on Wednesday, WITN reported. Prosecutors warned she was a flight risk as she has has ties to Connecticut. Her next court date is scheduled for Sept. 20.